Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sert has also worked to make the Design School a national leader in "urban design," a phrase which he belives was coined here. For the past 11 years, Harvard has annually hosted international urban design conferences, "in an attempt," Sert says, "to bridge the gap between city planning and architecture...
They got the message when she repeatedly piped: "You know where I stand." Another motto was "Boston for Bostonians." Excluded by this definition are civil rights activists, Harvard intellectuals, suburbanites, Yankees, urban-renewal advocates and other purveyors of unsettling influences. Postprimary speculation that a bipartisan coalition including Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and Republican Governor John Volpe would support White meshed well with Mrs. Hicks' strategy. "A powerful structure is coming into Boston to defeat the people," she warned darkly. "I'll take them...
...Arithmetic. White does not oppose bussing in principle, but, like some other liberals, says it is "really not a solution." He has campaigned in general terms for a more humane, neighborhood-oriented city government, despite the $200 million in federal funds that have gone into Boston's urban-renewal program in the past seven years. White echoes the common complaint that the money and effort that have gone into face-lifting the downtown skyline have not done much for residential areas or for Boston's down-at-heels schools and hospitals...
...convention one of the most constructive in years. The delegates approved a report of a commission headed by Harvard President Nathan Pusey, calling for a reform in the training of Episcopal clergymen. Also adopted was the Presiding Bishop's $3,000,000-a-year program to aid urban Negroes-which Hines called a major step toward meeting the crises of the cities...
Along with other law schools, Harvard has been paying more attention to honing the writing skills of its students. The first full-time sociologist and economist have been added to the faculty. Former Defense Department Whiz Kid Adam Yarmolinsky is developing a program of urban studies. The Griz is proudest of the increased action in international legal studies, in which Harvard is pioneering. Milton Katz, who ran the Marshall Plan in Europe, heads the program, which now offers 24 courses (compared with...